April 2024
Exhibition Closing: Kenneth Tam – Standing in Soft Formation
Today concludes the Kenneth Tam exhibition "Standing in Soft Formation" at Tufts University Art Galleries. Through his choreographed video, photography and sculpture, Tam has long explored the myths and performative culture that uphold conventional American expectations of masculinity and identity. "Standing in Soft Formation" features the artist’s two most recent projects — "Silent Spikes" (2021) and "The Founding of the World" (2023) — in dialogue for the first time. The two installations explore historical and present-day tropes of Anglo-American masculinity…
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Today is the final day to view the Tufts University Art Galleries (TUAG) exhibition "Visualizing Collections: Data-Driven Approaches to Anti-Bias Curating." For decades, data has been a tool to shed light on the inequities in the visual arts — most famously utilized by the Guerrilla Girls, a masked collective of feminist artists who began using numbers and head-turning graphics in the 1980s to expose gender bias in museum collections. These efforts have since woven into the museum community with organizations…
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